Hello,
This was also asked a few months ago, in which 'a person' from Oracle stated
around Sept 2010 - near the timeframe of the Solaris 10u9 release. Other rumors
speculate Nov 2010.
This was really what was known as Oracle Solaris 11 - moreso than just the
release of OSOL 2010.X.
What many people know, but maybe not common knowledge, is that Oracle
provides the kernel releases - but the larger scale wrk of providing the
distros is up to the community. This is actually the way it was for Sun
in providing the core distro (aka Indiana). Sun provided a 'basic'
packagemanagement framework to get the ball rolling - but the
community-at-large was to take the ball and make the final score.
Nexenta has done this somewhat. They conduct kernel updates from the ON
community and their own patches, a repository, package builder, and some
distros based on OpenSolaris technologies.
Linux has existed this way for over 10 years. The Linux staff provide a kernel
release in which major distributors modify and build a distro from the kernel
release.
This happened somewhat at Commodore-Amiga (moreso, closed source) and other
places under developer NDAs. Developers had code to modify and contrib at the
hardware level and software level. That was over 15-20 years ago and people are
still supporting Amiga hardware and software as of today - far after the
Commodore sponsor went out of business. Hard core hobbyists, I tell ya.
The letdown will be if Oracle does not release the next major Solaris release -
as they said they would. People can always migrate to other OS solutions or
stick with maintenance updates on Solaris 10.
People who really need Solaris support probably have it and know when the other
shoe will drop. Those that don't know are moreso hobbyists that are
not willing to be a bit proactive and contact an Oracle account manager.
~ Ken Mays
--- On Thu, 7/1/10, Alex Sims <a...@softgrow.com> wrote:
> From: Alex Sims <a...@softgrow.com>
> Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] So who is ready to be let down?
> To: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
> Date: Thursday, July 1, 2010, 9:38 AM
> I've stopped holding my breath. The
> question of when the next major release of OpenSolaris would
> come out was asked at an Sun-Oracle Briefing in Adelaide
> today. The answer from Angus MacDonald, Chief Technology
> Officer, ANZ Systems was "Quarter 4".
>
> However he didn't say which year :-)
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